به اون جايي رسيدم كه ماركز توي كتاب "Living to Tel the Tale" از پيش‌زمينه‌هاي نوشتن كتاب عشق سال‌هاي وباش مي‌گه. داستان اصلي اون كتاب بر اساس زندگي مادر و پدر خودشه: تلگراف‌هاي پي‌درپي و ويولن زدن‌ها و دوري‌ها و...

I never discussed it with my father. But not long before death he was asked in a newspaper interview if he had ever wanted to write a novel, and he answered that he had but gave it up when I asked him about the verb pegging in, because he realized then that the book I waswriting was the same one he had planned to write.
(Living to Tell the Tale, P 5)